It seems that shootouts with the LAPD always wind up with the house going up in flames: remember the SLA shootout?

I also remember the underpants bomber from Christmas Day, 2009, when a terrorist supposedly slipped through security just before the full-body scanners were to be installed in airports, which scanners had been ordered a year earlier by then-Homeland Security Secretary (read: Minister of the Interior) Michael Chertoff, who owned a major interest in the company that built the machines.